Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar

• Autore: Harward-Nalder Glenda
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Disciplina: 499/.15
• Soggetto topico: Bandjalang language - Dialects; Bandjalang language - Grammar; Pama-Nyungan languages - Grammar; Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Queensland - Languages; Extinct languages - Australia - Queensland; Yuggera language E23; Language - Vocabulary - Dictionaries and glossaries; Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax; Langues pama-nyungan - Grammaire; Langues australiennes - Australie - Queensland; Langues mortes - Australie - Queensland
• Altri autori: SullivanKaren
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- List of illustrations -- Figure 1.1: Yagara (in black font) and surrounding languages (in grey). -- Figure 1.2: Alternate female generations have the same sections. -- Figure 1.3: Selected kinship relations in Yagara. -- Table 1.1: Yagara moieties and the totems of equivalent Gabi-Gabi and Jinibara moieties. -- Table 1.2: 'Straight' marriage moieties and sections. -- Table 1.3: Children's moieties and sections are based on those of their mothers. -- Table 1.4: The consonant inventory of Yagara. -- Table 1.5: The vowel inventory of Yagara. -- Table 1.6: List of consonant phonemes (in IPA) acceptable in various syllable and word positions. -- Table 1.7: Attested combinations of permissible syllable codas followed by permissible syllable onsets. -- Table 1.8: Holmer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and three other languages in Part 3 of his Linguistic Survey. -- Table 1.9: Ridley's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and nine other languages in his Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages. -- Table 1.10: Lauterer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara in 'Outlines of a Grammar'. -- Table 1.11: Approximate correspondence of vowel transcriptions based on explanations in the sources. -- Table 1.12: Noun cases. -- Table 1.13: Derivational affixes. -- Table 1.14: Yagara pronouns. -- Table 1.15: Yagara adnominal demonstratives. -- Table 1.16: Yagara adverbial demonstratives. -- Table 1.17: Yagara interrogative pronouns. -- Table 1.18: Verbal inflectional suffixes. -- Table 2.1: Pronouncing Yagara words in the dictionary. -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Part 1. Grammar -- 1.1. The Yagara language -- 1.2. Kinship -- 1.3. Phonology -- 1.4. Parts of speech -- 1.5. Nominal morphology -- 1.6. Verbal morphology -- 1.7. Interjections -- 1.8. Clitics -- 1.9. Syntax -- Part 2. Dictionary -- 2.1. Using the dictionary -- 2.2. Yagara - English Dictionary. ; 2.3. English-Yagara Finder List -- Part 3. Texts -- 3.1. The contents of Part 3 -- 3.2. Background to the texts -- 3.3. Sentence lists -- 3.4. The Resurrection (Ridley 1875) -- 3.5. From Genesis 1, 2, and 3 (Ridley 1875) -- 3.6. From Luke 7 and 8 (Ridley 1875) -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka 'work' comes from the Yagara verb yaga'to work'.
• Titolo autorizzato: Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar
• ISBN: 9781760466183; 1760466182
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910842700503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series